St. Landry democrat., 1887-11-26
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

q full-grown man, made another attempt tC
escape from the State prison in Boston re-
Gently. After one attempt few weeks ago
to cut through the iron bars of his cell, they
were replaced by steel ones of great strength.
He turned his attention to digging out the
mortar on the stone wall, and so far sue
ceeded as to break through point opposite
where the gas-pipe passed along. He cut the
pipe and made paper tube which conducted
the gas through the crevices of the stone
work until large quantity accumulated IN
the wall. He then fired the gas, causing an
explosion, but it was not strong enough 20
blow out the wall, and only started seam
in the stone. The explosion made Pomeroy
unconscious and the keepers found him
lying on the floor. Even had the wall been
blown out he could not have escaped. 1t IS
said the explosion has made Pomeroy blind
for life.
1t is said at the Treasury Department that
the accounts of the New York emigration
commissioners are in process of adjustment
by the accounting officers, and that the delay
in their settlement is due mainly to the
failure of the emigration commissioners to
supply the information requested IN regard
to certain disputed expenditures. One OF the
principal points of dispute between the com
missioners and the department IS SAID to be
with regard to the disposition OF money
realized from the sale or rental OF certain
privileges under control OF the commls-
Soners. 1t is understood that Secretary
Fairchild in his annual report will recon-
of ho ant
grafton affairs at the different ports be
placed in ehands of officers of the general
government.
Secretary Lamar has sent a sharp letter to
Commissioner Sparks, of the general lana
office, replying to communication from
Sparks relative to the adjustment of some
railroad land grants. The commissioner, IN
his letter, says that either he or the secre-
tary must forthwith retire from the depart
ment, and the secretary, in replying, ac-
cepts the alternative and says he shall sub
NIT it to the President.
Hugh McGarvey and Anthony Riley,
knights of Labor, have arrived in New<1ork
from the Lehigh region to ask aid for the
striking miners.
In recent session of the Farmers ALI
ance, at Chicago. a resolution was unani-
mously adopted declaring that it is to the
interest of the people of the United States to
have the business of telegraphy, and the
matter of transmitting messages by tele-
graph, controlled and operated by the Post
office Department or mail service of the
country"
The Sunday Sayings office, the Pacific
Laundry and the Western News Company's
plant, in St. Louis, were burned recently,
causing loss of $4,000. The people were
said to be greatly excited, as two dynamite
bombs were found in the southern part of
the city, and fires from all quarters called
the fire department out twenty-six times
during the night. Anarchists are thought
to have been the cause of the fires. Several
arrests have been made on suspicion.
A new information has been filed in the
Police Court in Washington, against Sher-
burne G. Hopkins, who sent the counterfeit
internal machine to Chief Justice Waite
1t charges him with attempting to obtain
money from two well-known newspaper cor
respondents by false pretenses. 1t is under
SeooN
withdrawn when the case comes up for trial,
and that young Sperry, who was arrested for
abetting Hopkins in his hoax, will be used
as witness in the case.
Fifteen of the worst desperadoes in the
Southwest escaped from the jail at Table
quah in the Indian Territory, recently. A
hole was cut large enough for man to pass
through, the two guards were bound and
gagged and the cells broken open. Among
the escaped criminals are five murderers and
three horse thieves.
Latimer e. Jones, young man, has been
arrested on warrant issued by Judge Cow
ing, in New York, charging him with forge
ries amounting to nearly 100000.
The schooner Mystic, from Boston for
Portsmouth, N. H.. went ashore on Jerry's
Point ledge recently. The crew remained in
the rigging all night. When found by the
crew in the morning, John Mace
of Rye, had been washed off and drowned.
John Lowery was dead in the rigging and
Captain Hunt was in critical condition from
exhaustion.
The bark Union, from Pernambuco, at
New York, brought six shipwreckej sailors
from the Swedish bark Augusta, which
foundered in hurricane on October Is. |
The men were picked up from a small boat |
Just as they were about to draw lots to de- |
termine who of their number should be |
killed for food for the Others The captain,
mate and a seaman were washed overheard |
and lost before the survivors took to the |
boat. Another boat, containing six men, |
which put off from the sinking bark, is be- |
lieved to have foundered.
The brig Daisy, from Trinidad. with a |
cargo of asphalt has arrived at Washington. |
When off the coast she was met by gale |
and blown far out to sea. The voyage bay
ing been already unusually long the proyi-
sions gave out and the crew were five days
without food before they met other vessels.
from which they obtained relief.
Mrs Mcpherson, thirty years of age,
was buying some articles in store in New
York recently, when she fell fainting to the
1oor. She was carried to a waiting-room.
when it was found that her head was GOV.
,red with blood. On removing her bonnet |
t was ascertained that in falling the hat pin
lad been forced through her skull into the |
'rain, inficting fatal injury. /